Word: pocketsful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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One afternoon last week, Cartoonist Rollin Kirby of the New York World thumbtacked a fresh sheet of paper and set about sketching two figures. One was a tall figure, one a short. They faced each other, the small one standing with his knees slightly bent, his shoulders hunched, his left...
Captain Donald Baxter MacMillan, with his hands in his pockets, stood looking at an Eskimo and chuckling from time to time in a delighted fashion, as if he were watching the progress of a practical joke. The Eskimo paid no attention to Captain MacMillan. A big, blubber-bred man with...
One Gino Lucetti, a pale young man dressed in a neat brown suit, awaited the Premier's car at the Porta Pia. His slightly bulging coat pockets held four hand grenades which he had saved from the days when he fought for Italy in the World War. One trouser...
Secretary of State and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of War, Minister of Marine, Minister of Aeronautics, celebrated his 43rd birthday last week by assuming a sixth Cabinet post, the Ministry of Corporations. He spent the day at Forli, his country estate (TIME, June 21) with Signora Rachele Mussolini (n...
A. C. Clauson (attorney for the Crown) : "One has only to look into a man's pockets, and if there are profits there, that is enough for the tax gatherer. I do not say that if the pockets be full of stolen spoons one spoon should be taken as...